The "assign" function expects the request.vars.fields to be in JSON.
This should do it but I have not tried it.
data = {'fields': simplejson.dumps({'case_id': 16, 'assign_to':
'age...@example.com'})}
data = urllib.urlencode(data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request,data).read()
Massimo
On Apr 19, 5:55 am, Joseph Jude <ceph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a function as below. This is called as part of API function
> rather than from the browser.
>
> def assign():
> print request.vars.fields
> if request.vars.fields:
> case_values=json.loads(request.vars.fields)
> ret_dict=api.assign_case(db,case_values)
> else:
> ret_dict={'id': 1, 'msg': 'No parameters received'}
> return json.dumps(ret_dict)
>
> When I invoke this via,
> curl -u u...@example.com:web2pyhttp://localhost:8000/init/api/assign/
> -d fields='{"id":16,"assign_to":"age...@example.com"}'
>
> I do get request.vars.fields properly and the function executes as
> desired. However when I try the same via a python script like the
> below:
>
> data = {
> 'fields': {'case_id': 16, 'assign_to': 'age...@example.com'}
> }
>
> data = urllib.urlencode(data)
> response = urllib2.urlopen(request,data).read()
>
> There is no input parameter (fields). When I examine the
> request.vars.fields, it shows like the below:
>
> <Storage {'\r\nfields': "{'case_id': 16, 'assign_to':
> 'age...@example.com'%"}>
>
> There are \r\n at the begining and % at the end. Is there a reason for
> this? How can I test my function using python script (ie achieve the
> same result as curl).
>
> Hope my question is not too confusing.
>
> Thank you,
> Joseph
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